Old Widow- Blankenshipp (NC) 1918 Sharp MS
[My title. Single stanza with music from Bronson TTCB, II No. 44, 1962. Sharp MSS, 4760.
See Sharp's diary notes below.
R. Matteson 2015]
Sharp diary 1918 page 281. Saturday 5 October 1918 - Burnsville:
Had a very restless night but feel that we ought to make an expedition to day. So we hire a team from Biggs and drive via Wray’s farm on Cave river up Price’s Creek to Mrs Mary Blankenshipp. We had dinner with her & her husband who by the way reminded me in many ways of my old father. We got on very well with them and stayed till after 3, Mrs B[lankenshipp] singing me 4 or 5 capital tunes.
[Old Widow] - Sung by Mrs. Mary J. Blankenshipp, Price's Creek, Burnsville, N.C., October 5, 1918.
There was an old widow and she lived abroad
And children she had three,
She sent them away to the north country
To learn those grammaree.